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Comment by wg0

8 days ago

I agree. The code despite detailed spec reveals bugs and edge cases upon inspection.

I'm talking Claude Opus 4.6 here.

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dude250711  8 days ago

For all we know, some important clients might just be getting better service out of Anthropic's/OpenAI's "black boxes".

cluckindan  8 days ago

The spec needs to be explicit about edge and corner cases.

  • layer8  8 days ago

    At some point such a spec converges to the actual code you’d have written.

    • fy20  8 days ago

      I've actually tried that and it helps. First I create a PRD type doc, then I have the AI break it down in a task doc, including code snippets where relevant. This helps it to think through edge cases before it starts implementing (oh we need X now, but that means we should have done task 3 differently to allow that).